04/15/2014

Giant Portrait Shows Drone Operators That People Aren't "Bug Splats"

From where a drone operator's sitting, one blurry blob of pixels looks almost exactly like the next blurry blob of pixels, which is how the term "bug splat" worked its way into modern military slang as a way of referring to a kill. Now, though, a giant art installation in Pakistan wants to show drone operators that its people are anything but anonymous white blobs—and that that "bug splat" belongs to an actual human being.